Lent
Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday comes from the custom of ringing the Shriving Bell to summon people to Church to be "shriven” that is to confess their sins at the beginning of Lent. At that time, certain foods were given up for the duration of Lent. Those foods included egg, milk, meat and rich buttery dishes. So, on Shrove Tuesday, they used up these foods. It is from this that the tradition of making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday began.
The St Joseph's PFA will be providing pancakes for the students next Tuesday to celebrate the tradition of Shrove Tuesday.
Ash Wednesday
Liturgies will be held in classrooms next Wednesday March 5 to mark the beginning of Lent. We will once again be supporting Caritas Australia.
This Lent, we are called to Unite Against Poverty through Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion. Project Compassion donation boxes will be in classrooms as of next week and by donating, you’ll be answering the Gospels’ call to care for our global family and walk alongside the most vulnerable.
Your generous support this Lenten Season will enable Caritas Australia to provide life-changing support to communities facing poverty, food insecurity, lack of education, and water shortages, while building resilience against future challenges. Together, through faith and action, we can bring hope and opportunity to those most in need.
This Sunday's Gospel
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 6:39-45
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
A person speaks from what is in his heart.
Jesus told a parable to his disciples, ‘Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? The disciple is not superior to his teacher; the fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, “Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,” when you cannot see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter that is in your brother’s eye.
‘There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles. A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.’
Julie Cornwall
Deputy Principal | Catholic Identity Leader